Tip of the day - USER command

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Fri Mar 19 20:46:40 PST 2004


On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 10:12:44PM -0600, Jerry Rains wrote:
> I really think the problem is in 'netcat'.  PC*Miler CONNECT is a TCP/IP 
> service daemon and it doesn't close when Ctrl-C is pressed.  Does anyone know 
> how to trap break in 'netcat'?  If so, maybe I can talk Brian out of the 
> source code for his customized version.  It will be interesting to see if 
> that will fix this problem.

Has anyone looked into where the cost breakeven point is to replace
PC*Miler with some other source of data?  I remember that MileMaker was
a pain to deal with when my biggest client was an Allied agent; I don't
imagine RMcN has gotten any better; they *do* have competition now,
though, from navTech and all the people who buy their stuff...

Cheers,
-- jra
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